Everyone has days when if feels Daniel Powter’s “Bad Day” is playing on repeat in the background — unless I’m the only one who still appreciates that song.
Inspired by our recent victory against the Brigham Young Cougars, I have decided that it may be helpful to first-years to read a brief list of 10 things any self-respecting Cavalier should do at a football game.
Being the inquisitive collegiate intellectual that I am, I often seek retrospection, reflection and procrastination via assorted online quizzes.
I have been tall all my life . There is a box somewhere in my basement at home in North Carolina with a collection of pictures stretching throughout the course of the ‘90s.
Tucked away on Allied Street off McIntire Road, a Charlottesville treasure hides behind C’Ville Coffee.
Ever since the Fourth Year Trustees of 2009 added high-fiving Allen Groves to the “Things to Do Before You Graduate” list, the beloved dean of students has been bombarded with the open palms of eager University students. This Wednesday, however, he will attempt to receive the most high-fives ever recorded in the span of an hour.
Rain was in the air, but sadly, love was not.
Although the process of determining class schedules certainly gets easier with experience, even fourth-years have trouble picking interesting courses outside of their major. Check out a few interesting courses which may have slipped under your radar while crafting your schedule for this semester.
Let’s just take a moment to talk about sex. Science — and the bulging evidence from the boy next to me in class — tells us that, on average, most men think of it 34.2 times per day.
Working as a camp counselor this summer, I was reacquainted with how children view the world. After countless “Stop butting me!” cries and “But he started it!” exclamations, I began to reflect on the days when my biggest worry was whether I was first or second in line for a minute-long walk down the hallway.
At this point in my life, I can summarize my collegiate success into a three-digit GPA, fit 20 years worth of sweat and tears into a one-page resume and measure the quality of my education based on the Princeton Review’s rating of my university. In other words, if need be, I am 100 percent quantifiable. And, truth be told, you are too.
Waking up ready and alive is a skill that my poor, feeble, sleepy figure just simply cannot master. The morning routine includes: One, the classic pillow-over-head maneuver to block out easterly sunshine.
This summer, I got my first real job: nannying. When I agreed to the job, it was unbeknownst to me, though, that it would prompt me to rethink my entire position on parenthood, and on children in general.
There’s a strange mindset that accompanies the beginning of my fourth and last year here at U.Va., a sort of inner panging or homesickness for something but I don’t really know what.
Each fall, U.Va. students are reminded of the spirited extracurricular involvement which defines life on Grounds — and the tendency for many engaging groups to be pushed out of the spotlight.
Buddhist Biker Bar: A personal perspective Crozet Pizza occupies the Corner with a side of zest by Tyler Gurney Cavalier Daily Columnist Nationally recognized Crozet Pizza has made a historic move — literally and figuratively speaking.
Edgar welcomes syllabus week, add/drop anxiety and unruly roommates back to Grounds.
1. Meal plan You never think you’ll be thankful for a meal plan until your parents are out to dinner, your car is out of gas and you’re seriously hungry for something that doesn’t come out of a box.
To hear the Office of Admissions tell it, each successive class attending the University seems more impressive than the last.
Though a bittersweet truth, summer has come to an end. While some of us spent our days lazing in the sun at the beach, sprawling across our couches watching TV with the ‘rents and gorging ourselves on home-cooked meals, many students were working out in the mythical “real world.” For the past two summers, second-year Engineering student Grace Wusk has interned at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.
